Hello,
Apologies for the ambiguous title. I’m trying to set the siUIKeywordFile attribute for a text editor widget. The following works fine:

However what I want is to set a relative path. edit: (or get the full path of the file executing the code)
I have a couple of ideas in my head but ‘Googling’ hasn’t helped much:

1. Is there a way to get the path of the current file? Since everything is under an Addon folder, I can just build the path if I can get the path of my current js file. I know about [B]Scripting.fileSystemObject[/B] and the [B]getFile(ref)[/B]/[B]getAbsolutePathName(ref)[/B] method but I can’t figure out how to set [B]ref[/B] to the file itself (without using an absolute path)

2. I tried using [B]Application.InstallationPath(siWorkgroupAddonPath)[/B] but that returns the path to the top-most workgroup. I can’t expect people to put my addon right at the top.

3. The SDK desn’t specify whether an absolute path is required for siUIKeywordFile. If not, the easiest way would, of course, be to have the ability to use relative paths. I tried ..\\syntaxHig… it doesn’t work, tried many other combination but none of them worked. Which leads me to believe that relative paths are not supported.

Any help appreciated :)

Cheers,

Can you package everything as an addon?
Then you use the addon location.

My directory structure is as in the image attached.
I’m assuming this means I’m already in the MyTools Addon. However when I call, InstallationPath(siAddonPath) from the scriptEditor plug-in it returns:
C:\Softimage\XSI_7.0\Addons

if I use InstallationPath(siAddonPath) I get:
C:\Users\saj\Documents\XSITools\Addons <-- this is correct

But, if I add another workgroup above XSITools then
InstallationPath(siAddonPath) returns the path to that new workgroup.

Is there some attribute I need to set within the plugin file which sets the path to the right workgroup?

Thanks.

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Ah managed to solive it :) I used:
var oFn = Application.Plugins("scriptEditor").FileName;

This returns the complete path to the current file. Simple string operations and I’ll be good to access my keyword file. Since you pointed to the SDK workgroup example in another thread, I’ve been using it feverishly to make my ends meet.

Thanks again.

off Topic: Could it be possible to configure the forum so that the thread starter can edit the thread title or attach a prefix like ‘resolved’?

Maybe you could of used Plugin.OriginPath?

That works slightly better, thanks.